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Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Deborah G. Plant: Barracoon (Paperback, 2020, Amistad) 5 stars

In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old …

This story of Zora Neale Hurston interviewing one of the last then-surviving slaves kidnapped from Africa was not published during her lifetime because she refused to change his dialect to something easier for white audiences. It is truly gripping to hear him tell his story in his own words.